#dark urge hc

[agoodflyting]

I'm kinda in love with the idea of a dragonborn Dark Urge who was adopted and raised by a wealthy family in the Upper City. I want a Dark Urge who had private tutors as a child. Who can play the piano. Who had servants and tailored clothes. Whose mother wanted him to become a doctor.

It makes such a fun contrast to Gortash's 'started from the bottom and now I'm here' vibe if the Dark Urge started at the top and let himself fall from grace.

Gortash clawed his way up from nothing. He taught himself to talk like a gentleman and to dress like a gentleman to hide the fact the he's common as muck. He technically only has a grammar-school education, but you'd never know it because he reads voraciously. He's not ashamed of his background, but he also wants to make it very clear that he's risen above it. It galls him more than anything to be mistaken for poor.

Meanwhile, the Dark Urge had everything handed to him from birth, and willingly gave it up to embrace his role as the prophet of the mad and the forgotten, who lives in a sewer and is constantly covered in gore, because that's what his father demands of him. He rejects his background as much as Gortash does, though for very different reasons. Death is the great equalizer. What does he need airs and graces for? Why should he mind his manners? He is Death Itself. He doesn't need to be polite or cultured. He only needs to kill.

But he remembers. Occasionally, he will thoughtlessly correct Gortash - the kind of little things you tend to pick up when you grow up rich. That's damask, not brocade. The fork goes on the left. It's pronounced Ahm-nian.

It both infuriates Gortash beyond reason and makes him wonder about his partner's background.

Once, when he was waiting for Gortash to finish writing a letter, the Dark Urge went over to the piano in Gortash's office - the one he only keeps around for the look of it and has never touched - and played a few perfect, measured scales, like someone remembering an old lesson.

On the other hand, it's Gortash, in his gold-embroidered clothes and expensive boots, who will steal an unattended apple from a grocer's cart on instinct, because a part of him has never forgotten what it feels like to go hungry.

The Dark Urge is the one who sits with perfect posture and occasionally, unthinkingly, says 'please' and 'thank you' to those he is in the process of murdering.

Gortash is the one who, when weapons and guards fail him, will put up his fists and swing for the throat or the stomach, because he knows from experience that punching someone in the face risks splitting your knuckles on their teeth.

Gortash lives in the Upper City and surrounds himself with luxury because he thinks he deserves better than the poverty that he was born into, but he can't entirely cover up the stain of the Lower City.

The Dark Urge inherited a mansion but chooses to sleep among rats and filth because he thinks it's where a creature like him belongs, but the gore he surrounds himself with cannot entirely hide the Upper City underneath.

I just love the dynamic of the gentleman monster and the monstrous gentleman ok.

[wild-magic-oops]

The first time Gale talks at length about magic to Durge, Durge gets hit with a strong deja vu of Gortash doing the same thing but about engineering/machines/etc, and while Durge's brain has a huge hole in it and can't put a face or a name to the man in the memory, he immediately knows he's still very much into men who can talk passionately for 2 hours straight about their fav topic. A must have quality.

[nonbinaryeye]

I don't think Gortash needs his antianxiety coat because of Durge - he needed that coat long time before even meeting them. He of course is great at working under pressure but, well, the stress in his life never stops. Running evil church and his politic career and his arms and slaves trade and his inventing attempts and all the people who wish he was dead and so on and so on...

So honestly adding on top of all the things he already has to keep his mind on and worry about a bloodthirsty bhaalspawn is surprisingly not even that much anxiety inducing.

Upon their first meeting I can imagine that Durge was impressed how well is Gortash handling their bhaalspawn aura but Gortash hardly even noticed it because there's so many things to worry about all the time while he still has to keep smile on his face that he hasn't even notice anything unusual about them.

[luinen-bluewater]

Here's my take for the other races redesign with my Durge Tino. I took the liberty to slightly alter the template bc I also wanted to show how Tino's scrawny ass looks normally lol (and you get a Gith because I can't draw a Dragonborn to save my dear life, sorry :c) template by @hellothisisangle it's been super fun and challenging, thank you!

[cats-obsessions]

Okay but imagine Durge just really loves animals, like the idea of them, but they could never go near them because the small ones just really trigger that prey drive instinct, and then they get to meet gnolls. And gnolls are so huge and vicious and soft, and their nature pleases Bhaal, so Durge finally gets to have a pet- to Gortash’s displeasure

[sankttealeaf]

a kiss<3

[alicelufenia]

"You give me courage."

Feeling insane about the way Minthara has to practically drag her down into a hug

First genuine smile she's had since waking up in the Nautiloid pod 🥹

[zuutiomi]

Some doodles of Mavi before tadpole with her pervious gang and little durgetash doodle !! <33

[prawn-haunted]

the real reason he needs his gauntlets

[jessiemeows]

cuddly :33

[pro-evil-henchman8222222]

Wyll and Vervaine carrying each other: a series of diagrams

[shewolfofvilnius]

A Dark Urge who is pregnant with Gortash' child and just found out.

A Dark Urge asked by Enver and Ketheric how their plan with the Illithid could possibly work when tadpole infections manifest in a matter of hours to days.

A Dark Urge, thinking of the new life slowly growing inside her. A parasite, growing slowly, excruciatingly slowly, over nearly a year. The potential victim of the parasite caught unawares for weeks or even months. Only realizing something is wrong when it's too late and their life is already ordering around this thing growing within them.

THEN, when the time is right, and only then, then the transformation finally manifests.

A pregnant Durge suggesting they order the Elder Brain to treat ceremorphosis less like a mind flayer factory...and more like a pregnancy.

[chimkennuggies]

Still with the durgetash brainrot because it's better than actually doing something useful💥💥💥

Anyway happy holidays or smth

Kinda unrelated but I've started my first dnd campaign with some friends and aahhhh I'm so excited to continue playing ngl jdnfng

More drawings and variants under the cut!!

[truly-sincerely]

Tyrant and Murderer

[quacaserous]

thinking abt that one painting of david playing the harp for king saul but. durge and horriss. hello does anyone hear me does this make sense to anyone but me

(painting by julius kronberg, 1885)

[sankttealeaf]

a little dishevelled